Apr 19 2010

Body cinema: …and Counting by Wafaa Bilal

Wafaa Bilal‘s concept of body marking as a subtly cruel marking and flesh ‘n’ blood IMing is one of the most authentic artworks that I’ve seen lately. Bilal directly and uncompromisingly brings forward political facts that are in constant repetition.

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…and Counting‘ by Wafaa Bilal, Photo by Brad Farwell

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Apr 8 2010

Body cinema: Noon Dance Perfomance Trip by Eri Matsuzaki

Time to present the work of Japanese contemporary dancer and choreographer Eri Matsuzaki here on Body Pixel… I have found her dance piece from 2008 titled Noon Dance Performance Trip…

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From Trip (with Megumi Nakamura, Eri Matsuzaki, Kenta Kojiri)
Photo by momoko, taken from kojiri.jp

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Mar 19 2010

Wired bodies, sounds and images…

‘A Small Contribution to the Genesis of Everyday Life’ (2008) by Slovene media artists Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar deals with the complexity of relations between bodies, sounds and images as wired islands…

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Nika Autor and Miha Ciglar, photo taken from Kontejner

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Jan 28 2010

Interview with Thomas Dumke: On CYNETart and new media performance

Back in October I spoke with Thomas Dumke about CYNETart Festival and performative arts in the context of new media art. Our conversation was possible thanks to Sonja Lebos from UIII.org,  Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, based in Zagreb. Sonja’s organization is deeply rooted in architecture, urbanism and new media art.

thomas_dumke.jpgThomas Dumke with the background by Monolake Live Surround
Taken from ds-x.org

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Dec 13 2009

Body cinema: Contemporary artist Robin Rhode

Robin Rhode‘s work amazes me completely… he was influenced by street art, sport, performative aspects of visual arts and subcultures of his native South Africa… Rhode is one of the top young contemporary artists today and I would call him freely a grandchild of Marcel Duchamp or Tadeusz Kantor…

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